From the Bath Chronicle
Staff and customers have celebrated the 25th anniversary of a Bath supermarket.
Shoppers at Sainsbury's at Green Park Station were given birthday cake and glasses of bucks fizz to mark the opening of the store a quarter of a century ago.
Sainsbury's spokeswoman Leanne Vincent said the day had been a great success.
She said: "It was lovely to see people who are usually quite private when shopping in the store mixing and talking about the old station.
"I think we had the same number of customers as usual but it was different because people were talking and having a fun time."
It was in March 1966 that Green Park Station closed to passengers for the last time.
Later that year calls were made to demolish the station to make way for a dual carriageway feeder road.
However, due to local pressure and involvement from the Department of the Environment, the station was grade II listed.
This stopped any chance of the station being torn down, but it could not prevent the decline of the decaying building.
By 1978 it was an unprofitable shell and local groups which wanted to retain it did not have the necessary funds.
A breakthrough came in 1979, when Sainsbury's reached an agreement with Bath City Council and British Rail's Property Board.
Part of the deal involved the restoration of the buildings and train shed.
In 1982, the work was finished and the store opened on November 23.
The Green Park supermarket played host to a Bath school's fund- raising efforts for a charity helping children affected by HIV and Aids in South Africa.
Twenty students, aged 11 to 16, from Nelson Mandela House at St Mark's School spent last Friday at Sainsbury's to raise money for Nelson Mandela's Children's Fund in the lead-up to World Aids Day on Saturday.
All the money raised will go towards the programmes run by the charity that deal with the HIV/Aids pandemic in South Africa.
Pupils helped out at the store, packing bags at the checkouts, collected donations and handed out World Aids Day red ribbons and leaflets.
Year 11 student Nathan, from the Larkhall school's Mandela House, said: "It was a really enjoyable day.
"We have been learning all about Nelson Mandela's life and the struggles he went through so it feels great to contribute to this cause.
"I hope we will have made people aware of the charity and encouraged them to do their bit to help children in Africa."
The naming of school houses after figures who have changed the world began last year.
Students then spent time researching their house heroes and went on to choose linked local and global charities.